Cameron Bancroft (born May 17, 1967), sometimes credited as Cam Bancroft, is a Canadian television
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
from
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...
, Canada.
Early life and career
Bancroft was born in
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...
. He graduated from
Handsworth Secondary School
Handsworth Secondary School is a high school in the district of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and part of School District 44 North Vancouver. As of September 2020, the school reported 1544 students enrolled in Grades 8–12, the larg ...
in
North Vancouver and attended the
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...
in
Santa Clarita, California.
Career
Bancroft is best known for playing Joe Bradley on the television series ''
Beverly Hills, 90210
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''. He was on the show from 1995 to 1996, and in the same year played Astronaut Zeke Beaumont in ''
The Cape''. In 2003, he joined his Beverly Hills alumni,
Jason Priestley
Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian actor and television director. He is best known as the virtuous Brandon Walsh on the television series ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1990–1998, 2000), as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick in t ...
and
Emma Caulfield
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, in ''
Reality of Love''. He played the male leading role in ''
Code Name: Eternity'' in 1999 and 2000. In 2005, Bancroft guest-starred in season four of ''
24''. He played field agent
Lee Castle in nine episodes.
Bancroft has made numerous guest appearances on several television series. In 2005, he starred as
Charles Ingalls in the television miniseries ''
Little House on the Prairie
The ''Little House on the Prairie'' books is a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The stories are based on her childhood and adolescence in the American Midwest (Wisconsin, Kansas, ...
''. He also played the demon Cryto in the ''
Charmed'' season two episode "
How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans".
In 2007, he starred in the award-winning movie ''Country Remedy'' as a workaholic single parent and Chicago doctor named Evan Gibbs. In order to secure the job of a lifetime, he must first set up a clinic in a small mountain town in North Carolina.
In 2012, for the entirety of the second season of ''
Blackstone'', Bancroft portrayed the role of Dr. Kurt Ellis, a doctor who treats the Blackstone reservation and has an affair with Debbie Fraser. In ''
Supernatural'', he played the role of Dr. Gaines who was taken over by a Leviathan. He appeared in three episodes as this monstrous creature/doctor. In 2013 he played Ben, a star widower, in ''
Garage Sale Mystery''.
In 2014, he played Spencer in ''The Town that Came A-Courtin''. He played a supporting role in several episodes of the Canadian TV series ''
The Beachcombers
''The Beachcombers'' is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran on CBC Television from October 1, 1972, to December 12, 1990. With over 350 episodes, it is one of the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canad ...
''.
Filmography
Film
Television
External links
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References
Canadian male television actors
Living people
1967 births
Male actors from Winnipeg
California Institute of the Arts alumni
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